Future looking bright for Lily-Mae

The parents of Tiny Dancer Lily-Mae Morrison have told of their “renewed belief” that they will get to enjoy many more Christmas celebrations with their brave daughter in years to come.

This time last year, the courageous five-year-old, who suffers from Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, was recovering from a life-saving operation to have a large tumour, which was twisted around her kidney, removed.

Lily-Mae, from Claregalway, Co Galway, also still had dangerous cancer levels and was preparing to undergo weeks of intensive chemotherapy in an isolation unit at Crumlin Children’s Hospital. But her parents Judith Sibley and Leighton Morrison, who also have a three year-old-son, Evan, said they have every reason to be optimistic as they settle down to a family Christmas and look forward to the New Year.